Predicting whether the outcome of a decision will make you happy is often impossible. Predicting a decision’s impact on you is not. Happiness is a result. (Happiness is also a driver; research shows ...

We will all have to eventually face a really hard lesson in life: We can’t depend on a relationship to make us happy. We all have our own story that leads us to this realization. Here’s mine. Over ...

But what if you’re having similar feelings when you’re about to graduate, get married, or reunite with friends you haven’t seen in a while? These are generally thought of as happy moments, but you ...

Makes sense, except it doesn’t. Where major personal decisions are concerned, most people are terrible at predicting what will make them happy, if only because there’s no way to really know whether ...